Tak’asic

The company's business model focused on providing turnkey hardware and software solutions to OEMs, enabling them to reduce development costs and accelerate time-to-market for their own products. Tak'asic's clients were manufacturers of advanced digital office equipment, including color laser printers, multi-function peripherals (MFPs), copiers, scanners, and faxes. Revenue was generated by selling its specialized imaging processors and comprehensive development kits to these OEMs. The company operated with a full turnkey model, where it managed the entire production supply chain, from sourcing wafers to assembling and testing the final chips, thus delivering a risk-free, production-ready component to its clients.

A key product was the TAKPRO-800, a highly integrated SoC designed to power next-generation color printers and imaging devices. This chip consolidated system, networking, compression, and communication functions into a single unit, capable of processing up to 40 color pages per minute. The TAKPRO-800 was built on an ARM946E 32-bit CPU and featured a flexible, PCI-based architecture. This allowed OEMs to use a single, low-cost platform to develop a range of devices with varying capabilities, from standard printers to more complex MFPs. To support development, Tak'asic provided the TAKRDK reference design kit, which included firmware, drivers, and a suite of software tools. On January 1, 2005, the company rebranded to Tak Imaging to better reflect its focus. It was eventually acquired by Insilica in August 2007.